News update Manila receives medicine donations

Mayor Alfredo S. Lim on Saturday said that all forms of assistance that will redound to the health benefits of Manilans are welcome. This, Lim said as he received the medicine donations from Zydus Philippines Inc., with a call for other similar private companies to also share their blessings to the underprivileged by way of donating costly medicines.

Lim summoned the city health department represented by assistant chief Dr. Benjamin Yson and the directors of the six city hospitals - Dr. Mario Lato of the Sta. Ana Hospital; Dr. Marlon Millares of the Ospital ng Tondo; Dr. Fidel Chua of the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center; Dr. Ma. Cecilia Cuaresma, Ospital ng

Maynila chief of clinics representing director Dr. Jun Cando; Engineer Baltazar Babas, Jose Abad Santos Hospital administrator representing Dr. Teodoro Martin and Dr. Janet Tan of Ospital ng Sampaloc and instructed them to subdivide the medicines among them as soon as receiving them from ZPI country manager Arnold Allan Rulloda.